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The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Albany County, Wyoming.
The pyramidal stone monument was designed by prominent American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, for whom "Richardsonian Romanesque" an entire style of architecture, is named. The Ames Monument is dedicated to Union Pacific Railroad financiers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr. — brothers who garnered credit for connecting the nation by rail upon completion of the United States' First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. For a time the monument marked the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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